USN-1371-1: cvs vulnerability

cvs vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 11.10

Ubuntu 11.04

Ubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

cvs could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it connected to
a malicious proxy server.

Software Description

cvs - Concurrent Versions System

Details

It was discovered that cvs incorrectly handled certain responses from
proxy servers. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious proxy
server, a remote attacker could cause cvs to crash, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: